Title
Balliol College martyrs plaque
Subject
Commemorating sites of suffering
Description
Set into the wall of Balliol College in Broad Street is this plaque, carved by Heather Howes (who died in 2012). It commemorates the three Protestant clerics burnt at the stake in Oxford: Hugh Latimer, one-time Bishop of Worcester, Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury. Opposite the plaque, in the road, a cross of granite marks the spot where they met their deaths.
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Publisher
Museum of Oxford
Rights
Photo credit: Stephanie Jenkins, www.oxfordhistory.org.uk
Alt text
Plaque with the inscription 'Opposite this point near the Cross in the middle of Broad Street Hugh Latimer, one time Bishop of Worcester, Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of London, and Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, were burnt for their faith in 1555 and 1556'.
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